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Published on 10/12/2024Talking Science and Scientific Careers with Fifth Graders - Mission: Possible!
Explaining his work as a scientist at the synchrotron, sharing how he uses X-rays... On Monday, November 25, 2024, Sufal Swaraj, a scientist on the HERMES beamline, kicked off the "SOLEIL Ambassadors" (...)Read more -
Published on 25/11/2024Aqueous Ink for Solar energy
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are valued for advantages over silicon solar cells, including flexibility, low costs, and light weight. However, halogenated solvents used in their production pose (...)Read more -
Published on 07/11/2024A hybrid food to combat anemia: Iron examined with X-rays on LUCIA
Iron deficiency is the leading cause of anemia, affecting around 25 % of the world’s population. Developing new foods naturally rich in iron from their ingredients is a promising approach to remedy (...)Read more -
Published on 23/10/2024A Roman-Era curse tablet studied by X-ray tomography on the PSICHE beamline
Archaeological excavations carried out between 2022 and 2024 at the site of the former Porte Madeleine hospital in Orléans by the Archaeological Service of the City of Orléans uncovered a previously (...)Read more -
Published on 22/10/2024How is air pollution formed? New Insights
A team of researchers at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute/Hamad Bin Khalifa University, the synchrotrons PETRA III (...)Read more -
Published on 21/10/2024Open House – SOLEIL de Minuit - new date: Febraury 7, 2025
Following the cancellation of the SOLEIL de Minuit event on 22 November 2024 due to weather conditions, we are pleased to announce that a new date has been set. The event will take place on Friday 7 (...)Read more -
Published on 18/10/2024Alexis Gamelin, recipient of the Jean-Louis Laclare Award
On Tuesday, October 15th, the Jean-Louis Laclare Award* of the Société Française de Physique (SFP) was presented to Alexis Gamelin, a physicist in the Accelerator Physics Group at SOLEIL, during the (...)Read more -
Published on 18/10/2024Droplet levitation for self-assembly of liquid crystals
Researchers at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (Orsay) and SWING beamline at SOLEIL have studied the self-assembly of liquid-crystal particles inside a droplet when the latter evaporates (...)Read more -
Published on 16/10/2024The mystery of underwater directional hearing solved
The human brain determines the direction of a sound by analyzing the interval between the moment the sound is detected successively by one ear and then the other. On land, this is effective. However (...)Read more -
Published on 27/09/2024ReMade@ARI: a circular economy project with simplified access to research infrastructures (...)
ReMade@ARI (Research for Materials Development at Analytical Research Infrastructures) is a European project, of which SOLEIL is a member, designed to promote the circular economy by supporting (...)Read more -
Published on 25/09/2024DESIRS sheds light on clusters of [4]helicene, the smallest chiral polycyclic aromatic (...)
A team of scientists from Coimbra, DESY, LISA, Münster, Valladolid, and Angers teamed up with the DESIRS beamline group to study the structural evolution of molecular clusters of [4]helicene, the (...)Read more -
Published on 20/09/2024SOLEIL will be present at the Village des Sciences at the ENS Paris-Saclay, October 5-6 (...)
On Saturday October 5 and Sunday October 6, SOLEIL will once again be taking part in the annual Fête de la Science (Science Festival), offering the public the chance to discover SOLEIL and science (...)Read more